At Trinity Episcopal School we conduct school in the context of a community. We value and care about each other as human beings across generations, socio-economic lines, religious traditions, racial and ethnic differences, gender opposites and neighborhood fences.

Our caring is rooted in our Episcopal tradition, reinforced by our Honor Code and nurtured by our programming. Every classroom is a community reflecting our mission and shared values. Because children sense they “belong” at Trinity, they relax and look for ways to express themselves and discover their full potential.

No wonder our students seem to
LIKE coming to school!

We bind our community together with rituals. From our Monday morning ‘Greet the Week’ celebration to our Friday morning Community Chapel, we gather as a school community to participate in worship and celebrate all that connects us. Individual classes hold regular morning meetings to share news, resolve problems and discuss issues.

We bind our community together with shared traditions. Middle Schoolers start the school year off with our annual retreat where they can shore up a sense of community amidst the frenetic changes of young adolescents. Overnight class trips in fourth- through eighth-grades take us into outdoor classrooms. Fifth-graders participate in the RISE program which prepares them for life in middle school and the eighth-graders take on the faculty in the annual basketball game which launches them into a series of events that helps the transition to high school. Programs that reflect the school’s commitment to our promise that students will embrace diversity (e.g. Mix it Up Day, All Trinity Reads, Freedom Fete) are anticipated with the certainty of a favorite family tradition.

We bind our community together with small groups. Relationships are key to student learning as we take time to make sure each individual student is known and knows others. As peer relationships become more significant and complicated in third through fifth-grade, students participate weekly in the 12 Tribes of Trinity to get to know a small group of their peers. Similarly, our middle schoolers are grouped, not in homerooms, but in Koinonias so they will have a small community of peers to learn and grow with through eighth-grade. We also have sports teams, Odyssey of the Mind teams, and a myriad of after school groups that connect students around their affinities.

Trinity faculty and families have a high expectation that time, energy and resources will be devoted to community building because the payoff is worth the investment.